Studio AE from Technique Tuesday | January Blog Hop
Welcome to the January 2012 Studio AE Blog Hop!
This month's stamp is called Bring On The Love.
A nice love-themed set that can be used for Valentine's projects or any time you want to express your love for someone in your memory keeping projects. Love is one of my favorite universal themes - always lots of stories to share about expressing love (totally not just for Valentine's Day).
Here's a look at the 8.5x11 layout:
Now, let me be the first to say that I wanted to experiment a bit with this layout.
The truth is that I don't completely love it. I think it's mainly because I stuck that hand-stitched heart right in the middle of the page and it's totally bugging me. That said, I'm just going to put it in my album and move on. The process of playing was good.
If I was going to do it again or change it I'd probably keep the bottom portion (up to the scallop ribbon) and then have the rest be just the photo and the couple small hearts. Practice and learn!
Here's a look at the process:
I've had the Pink Paislee Mistables Collection Scallop Ribbons sitting in my stash for awhile and was ready to make something happen with it.
Using both Bring On The Love and Hero Arts Clings Thank You stamps, paired with Ranger Archival Ink, I stamped right onto the Pink Paislee Scallop Ribbons. I stamped "love you so much" twice and used a bit of red line adhesive to initially attach it to the page. I stamped the text stamp a couple times along the larger piece of ribbon and then layered it up underneath the first strip.
In the photo above you can see that I layered a strip of Pinkish-Grey Stripe Tape on top of the bottom edge of the photo. Aligned with the right edge I added a piece of scalloped felt from My Mind's Eye Everyday Fun Borders set. I stitched a zig-zag line along the edge between the stamped scallop ribbon and the photo.
The heart (yea, that one in the center of the layout) was hand-stitched using embroidery floss. Loved doing that but don't love the placement (and little stitches are easier for controling your shape - I didn't draw it on there first I just eye-balled it).
The other two little hearts include a Jenni Bowlin Hearts Plain Mini Chipboard Piece that I embossed with white Zing powder and a small heart cut from the 6x6 Fancy Pants Love Story paper pad and added a bit of Glossy Accents on top.
Along the bottom for the journaling section I stamped the "lots of love for you" design using silver ink from Colorbox Basics Cat's Eye Classic Pigment Ink Queue. I tried a couple other inks with this stamp and it seemed that the chalk ink turned out the best. I drew the jouranling lines with a Sakura Pen Touch pen in silver and wrote my journaling using a Precision Pen from American Crafts.
Along the very bottom of the page I added another piece of the scalloped felt and a strip of that great heart paper from the 6x6 Fancy Pants Love Story paper pad. I used the Fiskars Scallop Border Punch to created the scallops along the pattern paper.
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Be sure to check the blogs of all taking part in the Blog Hop today:
As a thank you for all the comments received during the hop on all the blogs, as well as those left on the Technique Tuesday blog, we will give away two stamp sets.
One person will win Our Hearts by Ali Edwards stamp set and one other person will win our The Cupcakery stamp set. You don’t need to leave a comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. All comments must be made by midnight PST on Jan. 13th. Tune into the Technique Tuesday blog on Jan. 14th to see if you are one of the lucky winners.
I like the hand stiched heart, its my favorite part of the layout.
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I really like the fabric pieces that you used. I like to add sewing sorts of products to my crafts whenever possible.
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Now that's a cool layout. I like how it's subtle, yet intricate.
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Great stamp set!
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Thanks Ali for sharing this layout with us.We all know how much you LOVE your family (with or without the pink heart)...and I love that too!
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love these stamps and your layout. Always enjoy seeing all the little bits and pieces you add to your layouts.
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I really like the stitched heart! LOVE the photo perspective!
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I adore this layout. Especially Little Anna. I especially like seeing how each product is used. I'm always so confused when I get to the store shelves and see everything there!!! Then when I get it home - yikes, but you pull it all together well.
Thanks for showing us your layout.
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Great layout, Ali! I love when you do posts like this. You always give me such great ideas. Thanks for that!
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I still love your layout, but I especially love that you accept what you wish was better and you just move on. It's not about being perfect but about recording the thoughts and the moment, which you do beautifully.
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love the hearts and the "newsprint" feel of it.
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I agree with you on the placement of heart! I really like the idea of it though and perhaps if it was off center and with the smaller stitches you mentioned. I do like the freshness of it with the fact that you did not sketch a heart shape to stitch over but went "freehand'!
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Just started stamping; would love to win either of these sets!
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This stamp is totally awesome! I'm certain that I NEED this set!
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I loved seeing how you put this together. Thanks for the chance to win.
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Can I just say that I love your shower curtain?
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Very cool and I love your layout (heart and all:)
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Your layout comes from the heart. Anna is a lucky girl. Thanks for sharing.
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Awesome stamps!
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what a nice layout ! I love the hearts, even if you don't ;)
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looks like a great giveaway again!
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I love it when you say you don't love a layout. Makes the rest of us feel a little better...of course, my "fails" aren't nearly this wonderful looking, but hey, it's all about real and authentic. I think it's beautiful, and I like the heart, though, I would have had to angle it and put it lower on the page.
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Lots of textures, lots of techniques to emulate, lots of love in this LO.
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Great stamps. Love how you used the mistables. I have those too and every time I tried to use them I wasn't really happy. You have encouraged adventure to create outside the box!
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Great new stamps!
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